Looks like more skin cancer.

IKE

IKE

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For ages mama has had a mole close to here eye, that is about the size of a pea cut in half, but recently it seemed to be getting thicker and would bleed when she washed her face and we both figured that it needed to be looked at.

Being a long time patient I was able to get her in at my dermatologist fairly quick and we both went Tuesday morning......thankfully it ended up just being just a mole and he froze it and a couple of more on her face and neck.

With my past skin cancer history I go every 90 days for a checkup and the doc always finds three or more places that look pre-cancerous that he freezes or places that are cancer that need to be surgically removed.

My next routine checkup was scheduled for mid March but while there with mama I showed him a couple of places (one on each cheek) that didn't look quite right to me and that had also started to bleed when washing my face or toweling off so I ask him to look at them while I was there......he got out his magnifying glass then looked at me and said, "we need to biopsy those" which automatically has meant in the past that they are cancer or he would have just froze them.

The biopsy results come back tomorrow or Monday but it looks like, here we go again folks. :)
 

I hate to hear it, Ike...but luckily you will be getting results early. Do you ever use that tube of cream that is a type of chemo? (I can't remember what it's called.) My husband gets that stuff; he applies it to the small cancerous spots and they eventually flake off. Both he and my brother-in-law have basal cell skin cancers occasionally and that is how they are treated.
 
C'est Moi the cream has never been mentioned but I'll ask my dermatologist about it when they call me with the biopsy results.

I know how he is and since both places are on my face he may refer me to the fella that's worked on my nose three different times that is good at doing repairs.

I don't know bout y'all but I'm getting kinda tired of this. :)
 
IKE said:
C'est Moi the cream has never been mentioned but I'll ask my dermatologist about it when they call me with the biopsy results.

I know how he is and since both places are on my face he may refer me to the fella that's worked on my nose three different times that is good at doing repairs.

I don't know bout y'all but I'm getting kinda tired of this. :)
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Ike, we are all hoping for the best for you. I found my husband's Rx; here's the information about it... https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-16269/fluorouracil-topical/details
 
I'm glad that your wife's mole was not cancerous and she's okay, but I'm sooo sorry to hear you're likely to be going through another skin cancer treatment/surgery. Fingers crossed that the biopsy results are not bad, you really deserve a break after all this time.
 
Biopsy results came back this afternoon and both spots are cancer......they're getting me in pretty quick and surgery is scheduled for 8:30 tomorrow morning.

Naturally I'd rather not have any skin cancer at all but I'd much rather have it on my cheeks than on my nose again.......nose + cancer = no fun.
 
Glad you're getting in for surgery tomorrow Ike, I hope it's not too bad and things go well. I understand what you're saying about the cheeks, your nose has been subjected to way too much already. :(
 
Aw, for cryin' out loud. Sorry it's more cancer, Ike. But I'm glad you went to the doctor when you did and found it right away. Let us know how it goes tomorrow.
 
It took about 45 minutes and it was the same ole routine.....deaden, cut, cauterize and sew.

Six stitches to close one and eight for the other and I return in 9 days (Valentines Day) to have the stitches removed.......most importantly doc assured me that I'll still be purty after I heal up. :)
 
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Thanks for the update Ike, can't believe how many times you've had to go through this, like you said earlier, at least it not directly on your nose again. Hope it heals properly for the stitches to be removed and the pain isn't too bad. :(
 
My wife has had three cancerous moles removed in the past 2 years. One was made up of Squamous cells and the other two were Keratoacanthomas cells. Both are nothing to mess with as they both contain metastasis properties are able to spread to other parts (organs) in the body. So, she goes to the cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. They have some really funky looking equipment that the can look deep into the cancerous areas and watch the cells "behave", whatever that means. From that, they can give a really great diagnosis if they have removed all of the cancerous cells. The doctor that removed her last mole (or whatever they call that group of cells that forms the lesion) allowed me to observe the surgery. I couldn't believe how deep he cut into her shoulder to get all of the cancer out. It kind of reminded me of when we used to cut a plug in a watermelon to spike it with liquor when we were in college. That's exactly what it looked like. He cut the whole way around it and real deep, then pulled out a plug of tissue.
 

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